Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
The five
General references
Bible References
The five
Mark 6:38
And He said to them, "How many loaves [of bread] do you have? Go and see." And when had found out, they said, "Five [barley] loaves [See John 6:9] and two [probably smoked] fish."
Matthew 14:17
And they replied, "But we have here [only] five loaves of [barley] bread [See John 6:9] and two [probably smoked] fish."
Luke 9:12
Then late in the day the twelve apostles came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away so they can go into the villages and the surrounding countryside to find lodging and food because this place is deserted."
John 6:5
So Jesus, looking up and seeing a large crowd coming to Him, said to Philip [Note: He was one of the apostles, whose home town was at nearby Bethsaida. See 1:44], "Where are we going to buy [enough] bread, so that this crowd can eat?"
General references
Matthew 16:10
Or that four thousand people [were fed] with seven loaves of bread and how many baskets [of pieces] were picked up [afterward]?
Mark 6:43
Then they gathered up twelve baskets full of broken pieces [of bread] and also some fish.